Does the Bible teach that though we are all God's Creation that we are in two different Spiritual families?

Question

Here is just a sampling of scripture to support the idea of two spiritual families:


Luke 16:8
8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
(KJV)

Rom 9:8
8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
(KJV)

Gal 3:26
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
(KJV)

I Jn 3:10
10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
(KJV)

Answer 1

Yes, there are also two resurrections. The resurrection of the righteous unto life and the resurrection of the wicked unto death.

Answer 2

God,which originally means emptyness or nameless, I think; is above all, or rather in all. And the devil, or evil is just a part of the whole. Therefore God doesn't represent all good and the devil all evil. We humans are free, it actually seems quite clear, that God was never ment to be a 'father' and the devil the bad guy trying to steal his children. Jesus in the bible said many times, that he and us and god are a tree, which is a whole, that what we do to the 'lowest' in creation is being done to him. Adding here the tree, means that we, whatever we do, do it to ourselves, the holy trinity. Father, son and the holy spirit are us, all creation, all that we see exists is one. God is obviously not brainwashing or programming us, we ARE and we are free, therefore, we separate ourselves in good and bad, believing the 'good'will be saved on doomsday. Therefore waiting, excluding and fighting. And forgetting that we are one. The more we cling to our perception, and our fixed images and believes, the more we get away from reality-that which is in front of our eyes. Would Jesus dying for our deeds on the cross would make sense otherwise? He forgave all and everything, because he looked through the material world, just like Buddha and many others, conquering suffering. I think we should not believe in books, but use what is written in them, like a key, opening doors, studying them (Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed etc.) to become them, to finally overcome suffering and injustice, because it is us, just US. Peace.

Answer 3

You are very close .... But technically we are still one big family (since god created us all and is our father), sadly as you have so clearly pointed out the family is divided into two different "CAMPS". If you are talking seed line even satan's seed line can be part of God's camp. Why else would God tell Cain,, " if you do well , will you not be accepted?".

Answer 4

The Christian belief that there are two spiritual families has a formal name - Calvinism. The five main points of Calvinism is summarized as thus: humans are inherently evil, salvation is unconditional, atonement is limited (Christ died only for the elect), grace is irresistible and that the saints persevere ("once saved, always saved; once lost, always lost"). I think this is the only logical end from your start. If you do not agree with John Calvin, then you better abandon what you have begun.

Answer 5

No. it sort of feels like there is two Gods using fact human beings "%. and choose" to make Him say what they choose Him to declare. in the event that they want a "warrior God" so they have an excuse to salary conflict in Iraq or Afghanistan, they continuously circulate to the previous testomony, %. a passage such as you only chosen (from Genesis), and then "interpret" that passage to recommend what they choose it to recommend, and that God gave them the fairway easy. The Muslim "terrorists" do an identical element with their Koran, so we've 2 facets that worship an identical God each and every claiming that their God tells them to destroy the different. No ask your self it sort of feels like God is the two bi-polar, or schizophrenic, or that there are 2 of Him. What human beings conveniently forget approximately (or forget approximately approximately) replaced into the circumstances while God stated issues such as you factor out in Genesis 6. God "wiped out mankind" using fact the 0.5-breed "human beings" - the consequence of devil's fallen angels breeding with the ladies of the earth (the Nephilim) - had so corrupted mankind that God had no decision yet to wipe them out. God IS what John 3:sixteen and the hot testomony factors out - a benevolent, form, LOVING God. in specific circumstances, He enjoyed us adequate to ... properly, harm us. to place that yet in a distinctive way: ideally, your dad and mom love you. yet in specific circumstances, they had to harm you so as that may additionally assist you. God is our Father; He loves us, yet in specific circumstances He has to harm us as a manner to help us.

Answer 6

Yes. It's all family.

In Revelation, the word for "those that dwell upon the earth" is literally "those descended from the house [of Adam]". Those born from above into the family of Yahshua (Jesus) and those descended from the child of promise (Isaac) are not at the receiving end of the bowls of God's wrath poured out upon the earth.

All descended from Adam will die. All born from above into the family of Yashua (Jesus) enter into a heavenly inheritance, and those descended from Isaac enter into the promises of God given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Answer 7

There are two spiritual families. Satan's and God's

The father of the human race can be either Satan or God's we choose which one we want to belong to. Most of the world is lead by their father Satan as 2 Corinthians 4:4 states that Satan is the god of this world.
1 John 5:19
. . .We know we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.

We have a free choice of which spiritual family we choose to adopt and we prove it by our actions by being part of this world and it's power.


John 8:42-44
. . .Jesus said to them: “If God were YOUR Father, YOU would love me, for from God I came forth and am here. Neither have I come of my own initiative at all, but that One sent me forth. 43 Why is it YOU do not know what I am speaking? Because YOU cannot listen to my word. 44 YOU are from YOUR father the Devil, and YOU wish to do the desires of YOUR father. That one was a manslayer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of [the lie].. . .

Answer 8

Yes... Only Christians are the children of God.. All else are Satan's kids..

Answer 9

Sin and the Child of God

4 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. 1 John 3:4-9

Answer 10

Those in the state of grace and those not in the state of grace
and only God can judge who is not

Answer 11

More excuses to try to fit a black-and-white attitude on to the world. It all boils down to declaring "either you are with (my) God, or you are with Satan!". The reality, naturally, is considerably more complex. Contrary to Christian arrogance, there is wisdom to be found in other religions and philosophies. These claims only give them an excuse to close their eyes to such realities and embrace ignorance as a virtue.